This is an excellent idea. For years I have used an additive called No Salt (potassium chloride) instead of salt.
The problem is that food manufacturers gum up the works by loading their food with salt (sodium chloride) during manufacture. Unfortunately there is no way to remove the salt once the food as absorbed it.
Maybe they should switch to potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride. And then advertise the hell out of the changed food.
I have tried a taste test of salt and potassium chloride. Sure taste the same to me.
These discussions are worthless unless the distinction is made between THE CREATOR’S SALT, which contains 85% sodium chloride and 15% other minerals, and salt that has been BUTCHERED and stripped of those other, very important minerals. The latter is what people refer to as salt, but it is like discussing oil and not making a distinction between a hydronated oil and a vitgin natural oil.
They can have my table salt when they pry it out of my cold dead han...err...never mind.
Besides, what’s wrong with putting salt on bacon?
I started doing this several years ago when I went full Keto and starting fasting as well.
Lo Salt is a cheap and effective electrolyte replacer instead of buying the overpriced heavily marketed ones.
The first marketing change they should make is stop calling it salt substitute. It’s still salts, just not all sodium salts.
Morton’s is leaving money on the table in not getting on the growing Keto bandwagon.
Most people get well over half their salt from prepared foods.
Not from the shaker. And not from home cooked meals.
I take mega-doses of Vitamin D, so can I still use as much regular salt as I like.
I leaned on Freerepublic that Vitamin D prevents/cures everything so I don’t have to worry.
Nope, you need salt. Potassium is a matter of spinach a baked potato or a glass of milk. This study is based on people who have horrible diets and get salt from chips and other snacks. Don’t trade salt for anything. Just have one baked potato a week and your pretty fine.
.....Almost everyone in the world eats more salt than they should.....
Except for those of us who have low blood sodium!!!!
Kidney patients... DO NOT DO THIS. The Potassium is even worse than the salt! Unless you live in the hot desert cut out BOTH to be healthier.
First off this study has a 50% chance of being fraudulent right out of the gate. Then we’ll see if it’s causation or the usual correlation that medicos are so in love with.
But how does it taste??
Be VERY careful buying into the “low sodium” and “drink more water” generalizations. Having not eaten the “SAD”(Standard American Diet”) in decades, following the “cut sodium” can lead to LOW sodium and chloride levels in blood work. If one sweats during exercise or working AND consumes a LOT of water, levels can result in an ER visit.
How did I learn this? Followed the “cut your salt” and “drink more water” mantra. Having blood work 4 times per year(2 at employer, 2 at PCP doc) caught it. I add salt to almost all meals and my sodium and chloride levels are “In Range” now.
It seems like no matter WHAT we eat, it’s wrong.🤨
The daily recommended sodium for adults is 2300 mg, which is about a teaspoon.
Fill up a teaspoon of salt look at it, memorize it, that’s your total daily intake.
Unless you’re cooking from scratch and know exactly how much salt is in anything you make from scratch, one would never know how much salt us being taken in daily, especially eating processed foods.
It’s a lot more than 2,300 mg. I would guess at least 7000mg probably more.
Or just don’t use salt. I hardly use salt but have watched people drain half a salt shaker on already salty food. Just not something I crave. BUT... If people want salt. Let them eat salt. Salt has saved countless lives.
“Last year, a modeling study done for China suggested that about 400,000 premature deaths might be prevented each year by national uptake of salt substitute. Our results now confirm this. If salt was switched for salt substitute worldwide, there would be several million premature deaths prevented every year,” he said.
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No. Even under the ideal circumstances of switching out nearly everyone on the planet (a silly hypothetical), this is beyond the physics of what is even possible by at least 50% and likely 3x. The New England Journal is a great publication. You would think that they would know better.
Our bodies need salt. They want another repeat of what happened many decades ago. It causes a lot of health problems and even death.
This was popular in the 80s. These fads just roll and roll.